ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

From receiving and storing inventory to picking, packing, and shipping orders, there are critical functions that occur within the warehouse that keep your supply chain running smoothly. Warehouse functions are the essential activities performed within a warehouse that ensure products move efficiently through the supply chain.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Having a clear and current view of inventory becomes the foundation for intelligent procurement, better vendor negotiations and smart reallocation of inventory across nodes. We now have the tools to track inventory more accurately, while spending less money on tracking. Inventory is capital sitting on the floor.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

For many, higher costs, supply chain delays, and unpredictable inventory flows are creating significant hurdles. While navigating tariffs requires short-term tactics such as pricing adjustments and inventory management, it’s also important to think about the following long-term strategies: Diversify supply chains.

Optimal Sourcing

EFT

MAY 19, 2025

Egypt's Suez Canal offers 15% discount for big container ships to win back trade Egypt's Suez Canal will offer a 15% discount on transit fees for container ships with net tonnage of at least 130,000 metric tons, to encourage trade back now the security situation has eased and help ships offset rising insurance costs, its authorities said on Tuesday.

Price Reduction

GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management processes and how to evaluate your suppliers from Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chain. Therefore, it is paramount for you as a logistics and supply chain professional to have a keen sense of how to properly evaluate a supplier.

Procurement Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization.

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. Ipsen , a global bio-pharmaceutical company with $3 billion in annual revenues, disproves that. Ipsen , a global bio-pharmaceutical company with $3 billion in annual revenues, disproves that.

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

“If only I had the money that the company was supposed to save from the multiple ERP and supply chain projects. This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. I really do.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Higher spikes for lumber and building supplies. A shortage of pharmaceuticals in Puerto Rico. I know of few areas in supply chains discussion that raise as much dialogue or ire. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”

Supply and Demand

Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To achieve this the customer shares information on sales and product needs with the supplier, who is then able to ensure the correct amount of inventory is supplied. VMI creates efficiencies in the supply chain as it ensures data from sales is a key part of the inventory management system.

Inventory Reduction

EcoVadis

MARCH 31, 2017

It is no secret that modern supply chains are increasingly exposed to risks that can result in increased operational costs, large losses, and long term damage to your corporate reputation. Many procurement teams are finding holistic approach can provide huge advantages.

Procurement Solutions

Aera Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In my previous role as Vice President of Supply Chain, I saw just how abruptly things can go awry in pharma supply chains. One year, just before the holidays, we lost five batches of API (the active pharmaceutical ingredient that goes into pills) due to a caking issue. Would there be a stockout?

Pharmaceutical

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Like any industry, in Supply Chain and Logistics we have a lot of Acronyms and Abbreviations. 4PL 4th Party Logistics – A step beyond 3PL, 4PL providers manage the entire supply chain for a client. APS Advanced Planning Systems – Software tools that use complex algorithms to optimize supply chain planning.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Locus

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Also, this is the most preferred delivery method for selling time-sensitive products in the pharmaceutical industry. It has become a priority for the pharmaceutical industry as it meets the customers’ need for convenience and safety. Why has it become essential to deliver medicines on the same day or on-demand? Saves time and money.

Pharmaceutical

Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

SUMMARY: Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains. the digitisation of manufacturing. What is 3PL?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Silvon Software

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Government, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals will likely maintain a focus on strengthening their pandemic risk assessments. Other industries will focus on developing or enhancing their risk assessment plans to identify emerging threats within their supply chains and other areas.

Procurement Analytics

Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains.

Gartner

EcoVadis

JULY 11, 2016

Before the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York City June 22, a pre-conference roundtable session on supply chain sustainability was held at the UN Headquarters. Government Expectations Can Drive Global Supply Chain Sustainability.

Procurement Analytics

Hybrent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A busy surgery center like Springhill requires rock-solid supply chain management; but, that didn’t always happen. Then I’d go back to my computer and go into our old system to make purchase orders for each of up to ten different vendor companies. It became my full-time job.”. I hit send and the order is placed.

Case Study

Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

What is also real is the impact it has on supply chains. In fact, it will not be a stretch to say that climate change is currently the biggest threat that global supply chains are facing today and is responsible for shortages and disruptions in several industries. Three stages of building a sustainable supply chain.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A manufacturer with 40% gross margin is doing very well in most industries, although there are notable exceptions in pharmaceuticals and a few other manufacturing industries. Supply chain planners or buyer/planners are people who must determine how much should be procured, when, and where. These tools are very helpful.

Manufacturing Procurement

Unleashed

APRIL 1, 2024

When you invest in goods and raw materials, you lock part of your cash flow into those purchases. Demand forecasting Demand forecasting is a process that combines technology, industry research, and sales analytics to predict which products customers are likely to purchase, in what quantity, and how often.

Inventory Management Software

Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Operational bottlenecks in the form of downtime, production quality issues, and process delays can emerge anywhere, at anytime, along your supply chain, creating an irreparable dent to your revenue streams. According to McKinsey, Supply Chain Management is in the top three areas to benefit most from AI adoption.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Unleashed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A barcode inventory system allows goods to be tracked along the supply chain and within a company’s storage facilities. It uses technology such as barcode scanners and barcode inventory software to improve the accuracy of your inventory management processes. Let’s get right into it. What is a barcode inventory system?

Inventory Management Software

ThroughPut

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Operational bottlenecks in the form of downtime, production quality issues, and process delays can emerge anywhere, at anytime, along your supply chain, creating an irreparable dent to your revenue streams. According to McKinsey, Supply Chain Management is in the top three areas to benefit most from AI adoption.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. Discussions devoid of definitions are the favorite ploy of the Supply Chain Conquistadors.). The sales account team models run in isolation from supply chain planning.

Supply and Demand

6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global supply chain disruptions, impacting the flow of parts and finished goods around the world. The disruption caused by COVID-19 is unique in that it impacted supply chains across all industries.

Supply Chain Planning Software

6 River Systems

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The modern warehouse is complex, and management must balance a number of factors including software, automation, training and processes such as receiving, picking and inventory management. Take a second look at your most basic organizational tools. His solution? The first profile is your order mix. .

Inventory Reduction

NC State SCRC

AUGUST 24, 2019

A recent WSJ article highlighted a fact that confirms much of what we found in our study of counterfeit products in the supply chain a year ago: if you’re buying on Amazon, beware of counterfeits. One of the first rules of SRM is to know who you are buying from and who is in your supply chain.

Pricing Training

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 3, 2025

s gaming division laid off hundreds of employees on July 2, part of a broader culling at the software company as it seeks to control costs. The gaming division has been under pressure to boost profit margins since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard for $69 billion in a deal that closed in October 2023.

Resource Reduction

Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Supply chain trends make it yet more complex because they represent the intersections of so many different domains. What is a supply chain trend-spotter to do? A Different Perspective on Business Trends and Supply Chains. Software is Eating Supply Chains. State of Play in 2018.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

HICX Solutions

JUNE 30, 2025

Competing priorities: Procurement, risk, legal, and finance teams want different things from supplier data. Pharma companies: Build approval workflows that stop purchases from unauthorized vendors, closing the door on off-contract spend. What is supplier categorization in procurement? What are the 3 tiers of suppliers?

Government